Setting Tile with a Caulk Gun
This simple jig makes it easy to hold shower tiles in place during installation.
While adding tile to a nook in a shower I built, I need something to hold the tile up on the ceiling. So, I fabricated a quick jig to do the trick. It’s made out of an old skeleton-frame caulk gun and a strip of wood.
To make it, I cut off one of the rails on the caulk gun and drilled a few holes in the remaining rail. Next, I cut the wood to length so that it was a couple of inches below the top of the shower nook. Then I then attached it to the caulk gun with screws driven through the holes I had drilled.
To use my jig, I set a few tiles. Then I place a short strip of wood under them and support it with a few squeezes of the caulk-gun trigger. I’ve used the same jig with a longer wood post to support tile on the underside of a glass-block window, too.
— John Carroll; Durham, NC
From Fine Homebuilding #253
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